I agree with the present course. But any reservations I have must be multiplied by 1000 for most people. What are chances that $87B will buy the end of the terrorist threat or that abandoning Iraq increases it?
How well do you think it will play that European and Arab countries should pay because they have benefited and will benefit even more? He did use the example of the so-called Marshall plan. He said the investment in rebuilding Germany and Japan infrastructure and institutions paid for itself many times over.